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Re: What is pee oh are en?


On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gregory Parkinson wrote:

> There's an intersting article in today's (Monday's) NY Times
> on how the major players in the $10Billion porn industry are
> General Motors, AT&T, and News Corp.

Greg, don't know if we're talking about the same article (I read the paper
this AM in haste) but to me MOST relelvant to this discussion article in
today's Times was the one about the video store owner in UTAH (UTAH!!!)
thought he was ruined because he had a few porn videos in the back of his
store, was indicted & brought to trial for purveying porn... His lawyer
looking out the window at big hotel across the street had a brainstorm --
checked how many porn videos were available there on TV, pay for view,
cable, HBO, etc... Turned out MANY, far more & raunchier than the store,
and widely used -- in UTAH.

The jury found not guilty (in UTAH !!) in about 7 minutes.

Other comments:

1. The sexiest photographs I've ever seen were people with clothes on. One
of the naughtiest was a small cabinet photo from Larry Gottheim's auction
catalog, "Be-Hold #32" (as described in P-F #5), all the more erotic
because "action" was clear, yet details left to the imagination.

2. Gary seems more certain about "the purpose of art" than any of the
hotshot critics & theoreticians I've read lately.  What he cites so
confidently is a current (and currently receding) concept. Among multiple
variations of "purpose of art" through history have been celebration,
decoration, record, status, narrative, exploration, illustration, uplift,
ideal form,  etc. etc. etc.

3. If Gary could only get Henry Hyde on his tail, he'd be one lucky fella.
Hyde *made* careers for Jock Sturges and Karen Finlay, among several other
lacklustre and listless folks who owe glorious careers to the
indefatiguable senator. Sturges & Finlay, for instance, had both been
around and going nowhere much pre-Hyde, definitely small time.
(Mapplethorpe IMO didn't need HH. He was brilliant.)

best,

Judy